Month: November 2006

  • Selling books online

    http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/28/selling-books-online/ 37 Signals have some social networking inspired ideas for promoting books. One of these is quite smart: The book got decent reviews, but didn’t sell much until he added a note to the paperback edition. “I came up with the idea of putting the letter in the back of the paper back, with my […]

  • Elgg will always be open source

    Dave and I have been hearing rumours (coming out of JISC) that we’re going to commercialise Elgg. We would like to state, for the record, that Elgg will always be free and open source. This is a core component of our ethos and business model, and will never change. Additionally, we would appreciate it if […]

  • Silicon Valley came to Oxford, Oxford asked which school it went to

    http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/21/silicon-valley-came-to-oxford-oxford-asked-which-school-it-went-to/ Dave Tosh and I attended the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event at Oxford University’s Sa

  • Weekly roundup

    When we visited MIT earlier in the year, everybody was surprised to meet us because they somehow assumed from our user icons that we’d be very short. As you can see from this joint video, Dave actually is: {{video:http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2959806081722097762&hl=en-GB}} Meanwhile, I’ve been having fun drawing Relevant Connections, a cartoon we’ll release every Friday for a […]